# List of punk rock compilation albums

This is a list of punk rock compilation albums. Compilation albums played a particularly vital role in the development of new punk rock bands, since relatively few local bands had a large enough audience to justify their own albums.

## Multiple-band albums
### United States

| Album | Released | Label | Description |
| American Youth Report | 1982 LP, 1994 CD | Bomp! Records | Mostly Southern California hardcore |
| The Blasting Concept | 1983 LP | SST Records | SST artists, mostly Southern California hardcore |
| Can of Pork | 1992 2xLP, 1994 CD | Lookout! Records | 29 bands mostly from California. Also features bands from other parts of the U.S. |
| The Decline of Western Civilization (soundtrack) | 1981 LP, 1996 CD | Warner Bros. | Live performances from the movie. Mostly L.A. hardcore. |
| Fat Music | Various 1994-2010 | Fat Wreck Chords | Various bands on the Fat Wreck Chords roster |
| Flex Your Head | 1982 LP, 1993 CD | Dischord | 11 bands from the Washington D.C. hardcore scene |
| Flipside Vinyl Fanzine | 1984 LP, 1993 CD | Flipside Records | 3-record set. The 2-CD version omits a few songs. Hardcore. |
| Hell Comes to Your House | 1981 LP, 1998 CD | Time Bomb/Bemis Brain | Side 1 hardcore, side 2 deathrock |
| Let Them Eat Jellybeans! | 1981 LP | Alternative Tentacles | Side 1 hardcore, side 2 various genres. |
| Nardcore | 1984 LP, 2002 CD | Mystic Records | Hardcore from Oxnard, California. An example of Mystic's "local" records. |
| International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation | 1984 2-LP, 1997 2-CD | R Radical Records (1984) New Red Archives (1997) | 55 punk and hardcore bands from 13 countries around the world. |
| New York Thrash | 1982 cassette, 1998 CD | ROIR | CD has additional tracks. Punk and hardcore. |
| Not So Quiet on the Western Front | 1982 LP, 1999 CD | Alternative Tentacles | 47 bands, mostly Northern California hardcore. |
| Punk-O-Rama | Various 1994-2005 | Epitaph Records | Series of low-cost albums featuring Epitaph artists. Early issues are mostly punk. |
| Punkzilla | Various 2001 | Nitro Records | Compilation album consisting of songs by bands on Nitro Records. |
| Red Scare Industries: Ten Years Of Your Dumb Bullshit | Various 2014 CD & LP | Red Scare Industries | 17 artists from the Red Scare roster, unreleased material |
| Rock Against Bush | Various 2004 | Fat Wreck Chords | Punk rock songs against George Bush. |
| Rodney on the ROQ | Various | Posh Boy Records | Series of three. Punk and New Wave as popularized by the radio program. |
| Something to Believe in | 1984 | BYO Records | 17 Bands, mostlry early 80's hardcore |
| Streets | 1977 LP | Beggars Banquet Records | Early punk compilation (mostly from UK) |
| The Thing That Ate Floyd | 1988 LP, 2002 CD | Lookout! Records | East Bay punk and hardcore. |
| This Is Boston, Not L.A. | 1982 LP | Modern Method Records | Early Boston hardcore. CD version also includes the Unsafe at Any Speed compilation EP. |
| Turn It Around! | 1987 2x 7", 1991 12" | Maximumrocknroll Very Small Records | 12 bands from the 924 Gilman Street project in Berkeley, California. |

### United Kingdom

| Album | Released | Label | Description |
| Raw War (The World Of Punk) | 1983 CS | Xcentric Noise Records | International compilation with bands from Brazil, Canada, Finland, Holland, Italy, Norway, and the U.K. |

### Canada

| Album | Released | Label | Description |
| Vancouver Complication | 1981 LP | Pinned Records – PIN 79330001 | Canadian compilation featuring bands from Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |

## Single-band albums
### The Clash

* 5 Album Studio Set
* 1977 Revisited
* The Clash Hits Back
* Clash on Broadway
* The Essential Clash
* Singles Box
* The Singles (1991 The Clash album)
* The Singles (2007 The Clash album)
* Sound System (album)
* The Story of the Clash, Volume 1
* Super Black Market Clash

### The Cramps

* ...Off the Bone

### Germs

* What We Do Is Secret (EP)

### Ramones

* All the Stuff (And More) Volume One
* All the Stuff (And More) Volume Two
* Best of the Chrysalis Years
* The Best of the Ramones
* The Chrysalis Years
* Essential (Ramones album)
* Greatest Hits (Ramones album)
* Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
* Lifestyles of the Ramones
* Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits
* Masters of Rock: Ramones
* Weird Tales of the Ramones

### The Reverend Horton Heat

* 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Reverend Horton Heat

### The Saints

* The Greatest Cowboy Movie Never Made
* Know Your Product: The Best of The Saints

## By punk rock subgenre
### Garage punk

* Hell on Earth: A Tribute to the Misfits

### Protopunk

* A-Square (Of Course): The Story of Michigan's Legendary A-Square Records
* Green Crystal Ties, Volume 7: Mind-Expanding Punk of the 60s
* No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion
* Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
* SEX: Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die

### Punk jazz
#### John Zorn compilation albums

* Black Box (Naked City album)
* The Classic Guide to Strategy
* Filmworks 1986–1990
* Godard/Spillane
* Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings
* Painkiller: The Collected Works
* The Parachute Years
* Torture Garden (album)

### Ska punk
#### NOFX compilation albums

* 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
* The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
* The Longest EP
* Maximum Rocknroll (album)